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Back to Search“When is a mind me?” by Rob Bensinger
xlr8harder writes:
In general I don’t think an uploaded mind is you, but rather a copy. But one thought experiment makes me question this. A Ship of T…
2 years, 2 months ago
“80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar orgs should do similarly)” by Raemon
I haven't shared this post with other relevant parties – my experience has been that private discussion of this sort of thing is more paralyzing tha…
2 years, 2 months ago
[Linkpost] “introduction to cancer vaccines” by bhauth
This is a linkpost for https://www.bhauth.com/blog/biology/cancer%20vaccines.html cancer neoantigens
For cells to become cancerous, they must have mut…
2 years, 3 months ago
“Priors and Prejudice” by MathiasKB
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Imagine an alternate version of the Effective Altruism movement, whose early influences came from socialist intellectual communities such as the Fa…
2 years, 3 months ago
“My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia” by William Howard
About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of financial penalty. The specific one I tried is For…
2 years, 3 months ago
“The Incredible Fentanyl-Detecting Machine” by sarahconstantin
An NII machine in Nogales, AZ. (Image source)There's bound to be a lot of discussion of the Biden-Trump presidential debates last night, but I want t…
2 years, 3 months ago
“AI catastrophes and rogue deployments” by Buck
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.[Thanks to Aryan Bhatt, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Adam Kaufman, Vivek…
2 years, 3 months ago
“Loving a world you don’t trust” by Joe Carlsmith
(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
This is the final essay in a series that …
2 years, 3 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
Summary Summary .
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully general reasoning, and if so, short timelines are less plausible.
Longer summary
Ther…
2 years, 3 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Short Summary
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully gene…
2 years, 3 months ago